Annotation:Going Down to Cairo
Tune properties and standard notation
GOING DOWN TO CAIRO. Old-Time, Breakdown. USA. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. A version of "Liza Jane." Cairo is a river town on the Mississippi at the mouth of the Ohio, and was quite a rowdy town in its day. The word Cairo is pronounced 'Kay-row'.
I'm goin' down to Cairo, Goodbye, magpie;
Goin' down to Cairo, To see my Liza Jane.
Source for notated version:
Printed sources: Silberberg (Tunes I Learned at Tractor Tavern), 2002; p. 52.
Recorded sources: Train on the Island Records TI-12, Bob Bovee and Gail Heil - "For Old Times Sake."